Poll: What happens after death?

[Monarch of Greenwich]

As an Atheist, I'd have to say that the there isn't evidence for any kind of afterlife or reincarnation, or indeed anything at all after death. Until I see some decent evidence for an afterlife theory that goes beyond 'faith', it seems that when we die, there is nothing left of our conciousness, no personality, spirit or soul that goes on after us.We just die, cease to exist.

Unfortunately, due to the nature of not existing, I can't even begin to fathom what non-existence is like. Then again, if I cease to exist, I probably won't care.

Maybe when we die, we are born in INTO THE SAME BODY IN A DIFFERENT UNIVERSE WHERE THINGS played out differently. For example, in this Universe you may have been to big of a pussy to go to Prom, but in the next Universe, you were still a pussy, but enough of a dick to at least attempt to burn your school down. Who knows, maybe you can be an alien Prince bent on Galactic domination(like the U.S. Government!!!).

 

[WolfRocker]

i honestly have no idea guess ill just wait and see what happens.

 

[sneakypenguin]

I believe you either go to heaven or hell. I think we as humans are just wired to believe in life after death just look at peoples throughout history. It gives us a goal to live kindly in this world and makes us less afraid of death. I for one don't fear death as i know I will end up in heaven. I think a reason that many don't believe in Heaven and hell is the fact that basicly since the turn of the 20th century man has pretty much become independant in that our technology and our quality of life leads us to believe that there is no God that we alone decide where we end up.
Side note atheism is not this open minded enlightened world view, but rather human pride in saying I don't need God.

 

[Fraught]

I don't believe in anything. Or like they say, agnostic. What if Buddha really exists? I can be a Christian, because the biggest religion is christian, but what happens if Buddhism is really right? Or Islam? Then I'm fucked. I am just going to wait until I'm dead, and if Buddha really exists, then I'm fucked. If Heaven and Hell exists, then I'm pretty much fucked too.

 

[Monarch of Greenwich]

I don't believe in anything. Or like they say, agnostic. What if Buddha really exists? I can be a Christian, because the biggest religion is christian, but what happens if Buddhism is really right? Or Islam? Then I'm fucked. I am just going to wait until I'm dead, and if Buddha really exists, then I'm fucked. If Heaven and Hell exists, then I'm pretty much fucked too.

Yeah, if you dont pick the right one, you get fucked, which is the fucked up thing because theres no way to know which one is the right one. Hopefully, so long as your a good person, you'll go to the same heaven, or some similar fucntioning form of bliss.

 

[Mistah Kurtz]

Here's a better question:
What happens after someone poses an unanswerable complex metaphysical conundrum to a gaming forum?

(Answer: see above)

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

Here's a better question:
What happens after someone poses an unanswerable complex metaphysical conundrum to a gaming forum?

(Answer: see above)

Boosh.

 

[eclipsedshadow]

hmm, interesting topic, but as there is no evidence proving there aint a heaven or hell, the idea of hell has a strong influence on my conscience, but i think reincarnation is cool.

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

hopefully the brain deteriorates at the rate of the golden ratio allowing for the illusion of a seemingly endless lucid hallucination.

 

[Stalington]

According to the poll so far there are apparently 19 budhists online XD(bad spelling sorry)

I'm supprised at how many athiests there are, I wonder if this statistic holds true with most gamers...something to think about (if gaming is related to atheism or vice-versa)

The answer is simple, what happens is that if you've had a deep, respectful relationship with jesus and your family then you are allowed into heaven, if not you end up eternally suffering.

also your WOW account and all those achievements you unlocked in halo fade out of existence (take that atheists!)

 

[SenseOfTumour]

Audience of 5000 people...

Psychic says 'Anyone here know someone with a name starting with..J?'

OMG I cant believe his special powers!

Ahem, cynicism aside, my theory is you die, and your life force goes back into the 'pool' til the next birth...of anything, but there's none of 'you' in it, 'you' died with your body.

I ain't saying I'm right, so dont be offended, unless you're a 'psychic' but then you'd have known I was gonna be rude and should have skipped this post.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

You live on as a ghost; there is no heaven or hell.

 

[Imitation Saccharin]

Sigh.
Mathematics only exist to explain and link the phenonoma that we see on a day to day basis.

Logical axioms, upon which most mathmatecs we are familiar with are based on, are universal.

Where-ever you go, 2 chords on a circle will have perpendicular bisectors that intersect at the center of said circle. 4 times 4 is 16. Log5=.69

Logic only exists to validate and explain the processes of the world through our own eyes, based on past experiences, inherited knowledge, common sense, and human nature.

No, logic in this context is the procedure by which those inputs are correlated with our goals and a plan of attainment conceived. It is a deductive process, not a belief or endstate.

If one is to think outside of the box, then they might come across the conclusion that anything is possible.

Abductive reasoning is sufficient to devise the entire world's knowledge thus-far, so it seems bizarre to ignore it in matters of death.
If you believe water will fall downward, why not that the result of death is decomposition? You have seen both hundreds of times

If Heaven is in another plane of existence, then who's to say that they abide by the physics/logic/mathematics of our own universe?

Your fallacy is that this line of reasoning is unlimited, and ultimately, counterproductive. How do you know a teapot isn't floating around space right now? How do you know the FSM doesn't exist?
You can only make tentative considerations based on prior experience, but as you utilize them for the entirety of your existence from getting up to brushing your teeth, it is irrational to disregard it now.

Could there be a heaven? Yes, it is possible. But so is anything. And an unevidenced belief must revert to false, or we face an insurmountable issue that ANY notion is undeniable.
If nothing else, science is the procedure of practicality.

We'll never know folks, but never rule anything out as being too ridiculous.

What about your belief in your own ability to survive without eating? I mean sure your hungry, but it's impossible to know if you'll die.

 

[Monarch of Greenwich]

Sigh.
Mathematics only exist to explain and link the phenonoma that we see on a day to day basis.

Logical axioms, upon which most mathmatecs we are familiar with are based on, are universal.

Where-ever you go, 2 chords on a circle will have perpendicular bisectors that intersect at the center of said circle. 4 times 4 is 16. Log5=.69

Logic only exists to validate and explain the processes of the world through our own eyes, based on past experiences, inherited knowledge, common sense, and human nature.

No, logic in this context is the procedure by which those inputs are correlated with our goals and a plan of attainment conceived. It is a deductive process, not a belief or endstate.

If one is to think outside of the box, then they might come across the conclusion that anything is possible.

Abductive reasoning is sufficient to devise the entire world's knowledge thus-far, so it seems bizarre to ignore it in matters of death.
If you believe water will fall downward, why not that the result of death is decomposition? You have seen both hundreds of times

If Heaven is in another plane of existence, then who's to say that they abide by the physics/logic/mathematics of our own universe?

Your fallacy is that this line of reasoning is unlimited, and ultimately, counterproductive. How do you know a teapot isn't floating around space right now? How do you know the FSM doesn't exist?
You can only make tentative considerations based on prior experience, but as you utilize them for the entirety of your existence from getting up to brushing your teeth, it is irrational to disregard it now.

Could there be a heaven? Yes, it is possible. But so is anything. And an unevidenced belief must revert to false, or we face an insurmountable issue that ANY notion is undeniable.
If nothing else, science is the procedure of practicality.

We'll never know folks, but never rule anything out as being too ridiculous.

What about your belief in your own ability to survive without eating? I mean sure your hungry, but it's impossible to know if you'll die.

Damn. How did you guys end up playing video-games and writing about it on the internet and not as philosiphists or mathmaticians? Religion?

 

[sirdiealot88]

Death isn't scary, waiting for death can be

 

[Walrus42]

I don't think that anyone will know until it happens, so people should just have a good life now and not waste it thinking about what will happen after it.

 

[Monarch of Greenwich]

wIGGLE SHATZ

 

[Jovlo]

If there is an afterlife, we would all go there in my opinion.
If there is an afterlife, we shouldn't be so selfish to assume only humans go there.
There wouldn't be such things as heaven or hell, it would be all the same.
If you ask me, the afterlife would be one combined consciousness, floating around.

Let's just hope that the afterlife is fair, unlike this life.

If there isn't any, at least there's peace in the void. I can live with that.
OK, terrible (not intended) pun.